Three Elements for Building High Performance Teams Using Enterprise Collaboration

The world of work is constantly changing. Change is good, but only if organizations can learn to harness new capabilities and gain confidence in the new workplace order. The modern-day methods of managing teams and projects will look dramatically different in the near future. Over the years, the pace of technological change has accelerated in a way that we have never seen before. It has impacted where we work, when we work, whom we work with, how we work, and the technology solutions we use for work.

As organizations globalize, technology is leading us away from the traditional nine-to-five workday, blurring the boundaries between professional and personal lives in the process. For many people, work may largely take place in their home office, in a client’s office, or on-the-go. Teams around the world maintain contact with each other as easily and conveniently as if they worked in the same room. Projects can be happening 24/7, with no communication delays. All these changes represent a constant force of disruption to the traditional methods of doing business, and they show no signs of slowing down.

What are the catalysts for the changes that are permeating our workplaces? For starters, the information age has had a profound effect on how we work. Technologies such as cloud computing, mobility, social networks, and telecommuting have driven connectivity across the globe and into our personal and professional lives. Consumer-grade social networks like Facebook and Twitter have trained people to actively communicate, collaborate, and share information online with each other. Creating groups, viewing activity streams, planning events, sharing ideas, and uploading files—these are just a few of the most visible assets that have played a large role in instilling and strengthening team building behaviours.

This movement towards openness and sharing is ideal for streamlining project management, delivery and participation – both within an organization and across its partners and customers. Having visibility into a project’s information and unstructured conversations, being able to manage its documents, and receiving up-to-the-minute information from a remote location—these are real features of modern business, often accessible through common mobile devices. According to the 2013 Forrester report, Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends, thirty-seven percent of people are now working from multiple locations and eighty-two percent of these workers are using mobile apps when they do so. Giving your team the ability to collaborate, access tasks and issues, make reports on progress, and update timesheets from the field will undoubtedly enable significant productivity gains.

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